Memorizing Barrons 3,500 word list, worth it?

evanescenteuphoria
Sun, 04 Sep 2005 22:12:54 +0000

some “hard” SC’s…from CB online tests.

“the entrepreneur had a well deserved reputation for ------, having accurately anticipated many changes unforeseen by established business leaders”

a. prescience
b. sincerity
c. avarice
d. complicity
e. mendacity

a. prescience, because its the only word with PRE. PRESCIENCE IS NOT EVEN IN THE BARRONS LIST! FOR SHAME!

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this one is very hard but good reasoning will get you the right answers…

“…downright ----, having no pep and vigor than a -----.”

a tedious, jingle
b inchoate, lullaby
c lugubrious, dirge
d facetious, ballad
e sprightly, eulogy

take out D and E because the first words are too positive. take out inchoate. why would a lullaby be “inchoate”? i don’t know what inchoate means, but it sounds “mean” or maybe “incomplete”. for sure inchoate does not mean “no pep and vigor”.

you should know what tedious and lugubrious means. why would a jingle be tedious?

the answer is C, a dirge is lugubrious. don’t know what dirge means, but it’s obviously negative, just like lugubrious. (lugubrious is mornful. you should know this)